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[CITE: 22USC291]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                  CHAPTER 8--FOREIGN SERVICE BUILDINGS
 
Sec. 291. Lease of buildings, etc., for offices, living 
        quarters, heat, light, and equipment
        
    The Secretary of State may lease or rent, for periods not exceeding 
ten years, such buildings and grounds for the use of the Foreign Service 
as may be necessary; and he may, in accordance with existing practice 
without cost to them, and within the limit of any appropriation made by 
Congress, furnish the officers and employees in the Foreign Service with 
living quarters, heat, light, and household equipment in Government-
owned or rented buildings, at places where, in his judgment, it would be 
in the public interest to do so, notwithstanding the provisions of 
section 5536 of title 5; and appropriations for ``Contingent expenses, 
foreign missions,'' and ``Contingent expenses, consulates,'' are made 
available for such purposes.

(Apr. 18, 1930, ch. 184, title I, 46 Stat. 177.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Buildings 
Act, 1926, which comprises this chapter.
    ``Section 5536 of title 5'' substituted in text for ``section 1765 
of the Revised Statutes (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 70; U.S.C., Supp. III, 
title 5, sec. 70)'' on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 
1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees.
